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Scientific interests:

• IR spectroscopy of probe molecules, Chemistry, Materials science, Absorption, TPR, TPO, TPD

Selected papers:

1. Nikola L. Drenchev, Kristina K. Chakarova, Oleg V. Lagunov, Mihail Y. Mihaylov, Elena Z. Ivanova, Ina Strauss, Konstantin I. Hadjiivanov,
   “In situ FTIR Spectroscopy as a Tool for Investigation of Gas/Solid Interaction: Water-Enhanced CO₂ Adsorption in UiO-66 Metal-Organic Framework”,
   J. Vis. Exp. (156), e60285
2. Kristina Chakarova, Ina Strauss, Mihail Mihaylov, Nikola Drenchev, Konstantin Hadjiivanov,
   “Evolution of acid and basic sites in UiO-66 and UiO-66-NH₂ metal-organic frameworks: FTIR study by probe molecules”,
   Microporous Mesoporous Mater. 281 (2019) pp. 110-122
3. Nikola Drenchev, Mali H. Rosnes, Pascal D. C. Dietzel, Alberto Albinati, Konstantin Hadjiivanov, and Peter A. Georgiev,
   “Open Metal Sites in the Metal–Organic Framework CPO-27-Cu: Detection of Regular and Defect Copper Species by CO and NO Probe Molecules”,
   J. Phys. Chem. C 122 (30) (2018) pp. 17238–17249.
4. Lagunov, O., Drenchev, N., Chakarova, K., Panayotov, D., Hadjiivanov, K.
   “Isotopic Labelling in Vibrational Spectroscopy: A Technique to Decipher the Structure of Surface Species”,
   Top Catal. 60 (19-20) (2017) pp. 1486-1495
5. Mihaylov, M., Chakarova, K., Andonova, S., Drenchev, N., Ivanova, E., Sabetghadam, A., Seoane, B., Gascon, J., Kapteijn, F., Hadjiivanov, K.,
   “Adsorption Forms of CO₂ on MIL-53(Al) and NH₂-MIL-53(Al) As Revealed by FTIR Spectroscopy”,
   J. Phys. Chem. C 120 (41) (2016) pp. 23584-23595